Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Butler, beside him. Farther back sat Mrs. Pepper with an admiring eye on her frock-coated husband. On hand for the fun was Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman. Senator Costigan of Colorado had to stand. Down in front sat Attorney General Cummings and near him Solicitor General Stanley Reed who was to argue for the Government. The nine old gentlemen swished into their places at the bench with a majesty which even Bishop Freeman had to admire. First came a series of decisions on cases previously argued. Only one that interested the spectators was a case challenging the right...
...Thomas Reed Powell, Langdell professor of Law at Harvard continues his article on "Commerce, Pensions, and Codes" in the current issue of the Harvard Law Review. This is a detailed discussion of the N.R.A. case, Schecter V. U. S. Its forerunner produced a great deal of favorable comment and it is believed that this sequal is even more interesting...
...Natchez, Miss, three members of Herbert Reed's family were hospitalized and two suffered at home after a two-month diet of lead arsenate. Bought for flower spray and left on a kitchen shelf, the poison had been tracked into the family's food and dishes by roaches and bugs...
...Economist Keezer's associates on the board was William Trufant Foster, first president of Reed College. When Reed was founded in 1911 by the widow of a steamboat tycoon as a cultural centre for the Northwest, William T. Foster had been called to get it going. He built a surprisingly intellectual college with no intercollegiate athletics, no fraternities, complete student self-government. In 1920 President Foster resigned* and thereafter Reed coasted along under competent but not always vigorous leadership. After Messrs. Foster & Keezer had been working on the Consumers' Board for six months, Mr. Foster...
Runner-up last week was Dr. Walter Reed, conqueror of yellow fever, with 57 votes. Economist Henry George scored 56, Suffragist Susan B. Anthony 55, Author Henry David Thoreau 54. Louisa May Alcott with 28 showed her heels to Herman Melville with 24. Far down the list were William Holmes McGuffey (McGuffey's Readers), 17, and Jefferson Davis...